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nparsaeifard
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plastic deformation

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Dear all,
I have used following recorder to record the plastic rotation around "Y" local axis(3D model):
recorder Element -xml Data/wholeplasticDeformation7.txt -time -ele 7 plasticDeformation
and the output file is as follow:
117 -0.000499 74.7 -0.000138257 0.4 -2.71051e-19 74.7 -0.00370904 74.70 -0.00111951 60.20 -1.084e-19
0.5 1.40946e-18 76.10 0.0002106 125.9 0.0005188 75.9 0.0055155 75.9 0.0034401 75 75 1.08420e-19
117 0.0004996 76.10 0.000210677 125.9 0.000518861 75.90 0.00551 75.9 0.00344017 60.2 1.0842e-19
1- Are the numbers in columns " 8 and 10" the plastic rotations around Y local axis?
2- I have modeled the same structure using SAP2000 software and it gives bigger plastic rotation values, I wonder why?
Looking forward to your guidance
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